N.J. Stat. § 44:1-59
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Time of final action on resolution; notice
Official statutory text
When a county shall propose by resolution, as in this chapter provided, to establish a county welfare-house, or to contract with another county for the relief and maintenance of the permanent poor by the other county in a welfare-house thereof, or for the establishment of a district welfare-house, the resolution so providing shall not be passed at the time of its proposal, but after the proposal the action thereon shall be adjourned for at least one month, when it shall be finally acted upon by the board of chosen freeholders except that such action may be adjourned thereafter to the next regular meeting of the board. Within two weeks after the proposal of the resolution, notice of the time and place of final action to be taken thereon shall be published twice in two newspapers of general circulation in the county, one of which is published in the county seat.
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